Show profile pictures in contact lists!

Cyntact even enhances contact lists in third party App Store applications.

It is not its own application: think of
it as a new feature for Phone.

Please note that this has nothing to do with Facebook: this is for viewing the profile pictures you already have stored on your phone. If you would like to synchronize your photographs with Facebook there are App Store applications capable of doing so.

This (paid) package is DRM free.

I personally do not like DRM much. Other paid packages may have some type of DRM: this one simply doesn't.

(Please do not steal it from me. ;P)

Yes, this is a very simple package.
No, I do not intend to make a habit of charging for little packages like this in the future: my plan is to continue releasing most of my work for free.

Please bear with me, and read this:

There are some important reasons why I chose Cyntact to be the first package sold using the Cydia Store:

First, it works: I have been testing this package for months and know there are no memory leaks or threading issues in it. I personally have about 600 contacts and I have pictures for most of them, so I also know it scales.

This means that I am hopefully not going to have to handle any serious support requests on Cyntact itself: this is fundamentally important as I'm certainly going to be spending the rest of my week debugging issues of the form "you lost my dollar", and really don't want to have any extra work.

Secondly, I feel Cyntact truly honors what it means to be an "unofficial app":
this is the kind of package that Apple would have to make a fundamental change to their entire vision, even technologically, to allow in their store.

So, will we one day see Cycorder in the App Store? Maybe. Will Apple eventually decide to add this feature to Phone? Certainly. But I guarantee that you will never see a package like Cyntact to buy in the App Store.

Finally, I have yet to meet someone who has told me they wouldn't pay a dollar for this package (at least, of people who would spend a dollar on anything, ever): Cyntact is awesome.